Cheltenham, St. Mary the Virgin (12, 22 cwt) Also known as "The Parish"

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Ringing Times

• Thursday 7:30 to 9 pm, bell handling practice starts at 7:15 pm when there is demand (please contact us first).
• Sunday 8:15 am for the 9 am service in St. Mary's.
• There is often a Quarter Peal organised at 2:45 pm on Sunday (a legacy left over from what used to be the 3:45 pm service ringing).

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Directions

Links to maps showing our location.

• Street Map
• Multi Map
• Google Maps (below)

The church is surrounded on all sides by buildings and cannot be seen clearly from the High Street. If you find "MacDonalds" or the bus stop, then you should be able to locate and alley leading to the church. From the other side, St. Matthew's and the library are landmarks, with an entrance to the church yard to be found on the left by heading east.

Entry to the belfry is made from the outside. The door being on the opposite side of the church to the normal entrance (same side as MacDonalds), down a path passing to the right of a large memorial stone. Please be advised that the steps are steep and uneven.

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Learning to Ring

If you wish to learn to ring you should contact a member of the band to let them know. You should also be prepared to turn up to the parish 7.15pm. We will then give you handling lessons before the main practice starts. Once we have taught you to ring we would then like you to turn up to ring on Sunday mornings for services.

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Links

• St. Mary with St. Matthew, Cheltenham - Find out more about activities within the church.

• Branch Web Site - For locally organised ringing events.
• G&B DA Web Site - For a full listing of rings of bells in the Association.
• Central Council Web Site
• Ringing Information - The central bell ringing information resource with all the links for ringing you could ever dream of.

• Felstead database of peals and peals since 1988.
• Other 12 bell rings.

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Written by Philip Abbey.